locopati

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by locopati 2mo ago
juat wait until you hear the costs of gluten-free bread
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by locopati 2mo ago
Love to see everyone here cheering the destruction of the humanities in the name of cutting federal spending. Y'all do realize how that's going to play out, right? A less educated population who will be even more prone to fascism.
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by locopati 4mo ago
It is also possible to walk away from tech. To stop chasing the demands of anything for a buck and focus on something real.
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by locopati 5mo ago
"Psychiatric needs do not subside after medical gender reassignment." Perhaps because being trans is not well supported and accepted in many societies, even the ones that may have legal protections for trans people (which is, in i
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by locopati 6mo ago
at the highest levels are the most rigorous standards and testing. this is where it makes the most sense to allow trans athletes to. compete. trans women who have been on hormone replacement do not have an advantage over cis women. this is
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by locopati 6mo ago
Trump doesn't care about the results in Iran. He's getting richer through graft while making himself look big. He's pathetic and we're all paying the price in one way or another.
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by locopati 6mo ago
Just wait until the governments start really coming after the people they don't like based on their internet usage. We're already seeing this in the US around social media profiling. States have tried to associate queerness with s
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by locopati 6mo ago
if you're giving up that easily, you're just a troll
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by locopati 6mo ago
the GOP produced him and the Christian xenophobic anti-everyone policies have been a 50 year project that's now coming to fruition. Trump is bad and so is the rest of the Republican party. this problem doesn't go away when he does
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by locopati 6mo ago
use AI! no! not that way!
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by locopati 7mo ago
Otherwise similarly situation people in the present are already being grouped together into categories and treated differently...undoing that is the work that needs doing.
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by locopati 7mo ago
Have you been paying attention to who the US elected and the people who elected him? They definitely deny systemic racism and are here for ICE targeting non-white people.
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by locopati 7mo ago
In order to bring people together, it's necessary to acknowledge the harms that have been caused. That is part of repair and trust building. Germany had war crimes trials. South Africa had truth & reconciliation. The US can't
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by locopati 7mo ago
and this timely article just showed up https://contrarian.substack.com/p/inside-trumps-ice-concentr...
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by locopati 7mo ago
so why are they almost exclusively focused on brown immigrants vs European ones? why aren't they going after wealthy white business owners who employ undocumented immigrants? why are they going after immigrants who are here legally or
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by locopati 7mo ago
Charitable of you to assume good faith or truth from the accusers.
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by locopati 7mo ago
a lack of a social safety net (and what little there is is often punitive and degrading)
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by locopati 8mo ago
transgenderism is not a thing. transgender people are real, however. trans people are at greater risk of violence and sexual assault (sometimes because sex work is the only way for them to survive). being arrested as a trans woman could mea
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by locopati 8mo ago
Is it really a problem though?
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by locopati 8mo ago
You point out the views of anti-gun folks while failing to note that all those loud & proud 2A advocates seem to be pretty happy with the current turn of events and not showing up at all as the government overreaches and repeatedly shit
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by locopati 8mo ago
hell no. i quit tech with a lot less because life is too short.
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by locopati 8mo ago
Congress is not powerless. They have ceded their powers over time. They have refused to stand up for their powers, especially under the Republicans, who could have voted to impeach but did not, who could still vote to impeach but will not.
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by locopati 8mo ago
welcome to 2025?
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by locopati 9mo ago
the progressive wing of the Democratic party does not have much sway or power within the party tho. the party itself is centrist.
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by locopati 9mo ago
that pretty much sums up the American conservative mindset, without the part about being smart
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by locopati 10mo ago
your friend was trying to get them out of one cult and into another?
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by locopati 10mo ago
Yes, because clearly this administration is very interested in weeding out corruption rather than making most people's lives harder so that the wealthy can have even more wealth. It's long past time to be accepting their rationale
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by locopati 11mo ago
and almost all of it committed by people with right-wing views
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by locopati 11mo ago
That's not the way governance works. Did you feel that way when the Democrats held all three branches and still the Republicans did everything in their power to break government? Trump won the presidency by a slim margin... the Senate
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by locopati 11mo ago
The Roberts courts is in on this. They know Trump won't last forever and when he's gone, they get Vance to carry on with their Dominionist project. People need to stop thinking that the branches are playing realpolitik games... th

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